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1
Month
December
Year
1881
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The lateet news from Dayton, Washington territory, states that the whole number of cases of smallpox op to date is 135, with 18 deaths and 60 cases convalescent It Is stated that further indictmente have been found, reachtng into the hundreds of thousandB, agalnst Sapt, Howgate. Jay Gould and other New York capitalista are'alleged to be organizing a new stock excbange baak and trust company, with a capital of $6,000,000. It is said the purpose is to fight the old excbange, which ha frequently refused to do ttould's bidding. Keek 4 Co. of Cinclnnati, have been robbed of $6,000 worth of dianiondB. They do not know when the robbing took place. Boliver.the five ton elephant which traveled wltb Van Amburgh's menagerie for several years, was sold in New Tork this week, Forepaugh being the parchaser, at f 7,100. He also bought the double-horued rhinoceros for $2.Í60. Cyrus W. Field is reported to have bought the New Tfork Express with a view to oonBolidating it witb the Evenlng Mail, which he has owned for over a year. Secretary Folger would like to know how to pinchase four and a half and five per cent bonds without caUmg in three and a halfs, and üt the same time protect the goTOrnment. Baldwin, teller of the Mecbanic's National bank, NswRrk, N, J., has been released on $25,000 bail. . American artists are invited to submlt designs for a monument to Alexander II., to be erectert in the endosare of the Kremlin at Moscow. Forty four nnsafe buildings, six positively dangerous, are reported in one precinct in New York city. Nearly 20,600 persons attended tbo Atlanta exposition TbankegivinK day, including 8,000 college and school students. There are now 13,000 people eared for in the city and they claim room for 10,000 more. Capt. Howgate was brought into conrt the day alter Thankssíi7ing and a motion was made to reduce his bail f rom $25,000 to f 15,000. Inasmuch as indietinents aggregating $160,000 were hanging over liim, thero was opposition to a reduction of bail. Howgate was taken back to Jall. Guiteau passed Thanksgiving quietly in his cell, most of the day reclining on a cot half asleep. About noon his brother called and spent a sliort time with hira and at 8 o'clock he ate witti relish a dinner Bent to the iuil prepared by Mrs. Scovillo. Tfi authoritiea in New York city per request have sent 2,000 vaccine points to Bochester, N. Y-, where Bmall-pox is becomiug epidemie. While a party of 25 boys and girb were skating on a pond neaiCdlunibla, Mo., Thauksgiving day, the ice broke and three of the party were drowned. W. S. Bamey, eciiool teacher, and ageut for patent desks, who had an office In 0. W. Hart's drug store, Springfleld, 111., was discovered pilfering money from the cash drawer, and confessed to taking $2,000. Bobioson of the lOth Massachusstta district is added to the list of canfiidoten for speaker of the house. Hillhouse has teslgned the office of assiatant Dnited States treasnrer. Secrctary Hnnt is thought, of as judge of the court of claims, to be appointed wheu croít Davis becomes aseistant Recreiaiy oí srate in Arthut's cabinet. Mtlleru witl watcli wlth interest the issue of eight euits brought in the United States circuit court at St. Louis by Bignall of Syraouse, N. Y., for Infringeinenlson the DeBOliüeld patent for cooling aud drring ineal. It is probable that the affairs of the Pacific bank of Boston wIU be closed op by a receiver. Dr. Armorof Brooklyn, an acknowleiiged authovity, says Qulteau, inBtead of being insane is slmply one of alargeand dangerous clasa of Ul-balanced mental iconstrosities, compounded of badly arranged intelectual forces, f eeble moral facnltles mid enormous eelf-conceit." The banking house of Phelps, Stokes & Co. of New York city, will retire f rom business at the cIobs of tho year. The death of James Stokes and the recent serions iilness of Isaac N. Phelps, the principal partners of the finn make the discontinuance neeessary. üwing to prevalence of cholera in Mecca and tbe fact that such an epidemie is usually followed by an outbreak in this country, a cali 8 madfl by the New York board of health that the O. S. goveroment unite with proper bodies of other gevernments to prevent tho spread of the disease In this country. Representatives ef Cyrus W. Field took poBsession of the offlea of the New York Evening Express Saturday. James Bradley, an extensivo lumber mer. chant, has failed; liabilities $160,000. The banks of Louisville, Ky., hold the principal portion of the debt. In conseauence of the mixed condition of affaire it is impossible to give the assetc. Ihe actiog postmaster general in Washington on Monday issued an order ío postmasters, instructing them to decline (o reeeive mail matter from cities declared by the health officer to b8 the soat of contagious disease. fhe Paulding iion furnaee atCecil.Paulding county. Ohio, was enlirely destróyer! by fire on Monday. Loes estímated at f80,000; insurance. not known, as the works are owsed by Graffe, Bennett & Co., of Pittsburgh. Five hundred men are thrown out of emp'ioyrafcni. President Arthur will inove into the White House on Wednesdsy or Thursday of this week, as it ie expected that all the repairs and improvements now in progresa there wii! be fiuishod by that time. Mrs. Kate Chas Sprague will pass th? ter in New York. It 8 proposed to change the name of Coondl Bluffs to Garficld. In the Chrlstiaucy divorce cas Nnv. 28, the cross examinatiou of Mary F. Lugenbeel, moiher of Mis. Christiancy, was resumed. Beisg asked to relate some details of Mr. Christiancy's alleged cruelty to bis wlfe, the witneso testiQed that while she was visiting them In Lansing, Mich.. Mr. Christiancy kaocked bis wife down in their room. Some two days later the witness spoke about the circumstauce to Mr. Cbristiancy, and he eaid he was drunk when he did it, and it should not occur again. Mr. Christiancy and hls sons were drunk the entire time when ehe was ut the house, and fighting between them was au every day occurrence. During the giving of the witness' testimoDy, she was repeatedly prompted and corrected by her daughter, to which counsel for the plaintiff objected. This brouaht on a sharp colloquy in which Mrs. Christianey asserted that her husband was drunk all the time as was one oí bis counsel. This last declaration irritated the gentleman to whom she referred (Ingersoll), who demanded that the charge be made part of the record, and amld some excitement the session cloeed. The daily production during October of the Bradford, Pa„ oil field was 65,924 barrels, a daily decrease of 1,428 barrels from the previou month. Nearly one hundred Milwaukee cigar manufacturera have combined to resist the encroachments of the Cigarmakers' Union. The liabilities of (leo. T, Clark, morocoo dealer, of Boston, are $114,000; $72,000 is eecured. The unsecured creditors wlll got Ion oants on the dollar. Au anti-railroad monopoly meeting waa held at Saa Francisco, thia week to protect againat an excluaive franchise being given the Bay Shoie Bailroad to encircle the city with ita tracks. E. W. Lanslng & Co. of Si. Louia, falled for over half a million dollars. The failure waa precipitated aa followe: The house owed Billingeby $B00,000. He ref uaed to grani the flrm lurther extenBion on the debt, and they aold or transferredtohim aufficient liquor to cover demanda. Thia being done, the house had notes, open accounts and atock to the amount of about f40,000, with which they pnrposed contiuuing business in asmall way. The other creditora, acting on the eêsumption that the transfer to Biillngsby wasfcaudulent, suei out attachmenta, and In order that oue creditor ühould not have preference over another the flnn made an assignnient. Corning and Co., diatillers, Peoria, sued out a writ of replevin today agaiuat üillingaby for 25 barrels of wbisky sold to Lansing & Co., and otijer suits will doubtlesa follow. The enterprise of boring artealan wells in Tulaie Couuty, Cal., has proved successful. A well commenced on October 10 struck water twenty-eeven dajs afterward, at a depth of 330 feet, and has since been yielding at the rate of more than 80,000 gallons per hour. Allowlng one-Iourth ot this for waste, the quantity is aufflcient to cover twenty acres of gii und with one inch of water every twenty-four hours. The Hon. Levi P. Morton promiaed to persuade the Frenen Government to reacind the proposition against American pork, and the foreign dispatches índicats that he has been able to do so. The Connecticut courta have decided that a liinited railroad ticket is wotthless after the time tor which it waa lsBued has xpired. This questiou has arisan many timos, and the decisión will aave the railroad companies much trouble. It is humiiíating to note the fact tbat Mrs. 0arfield receíves ihrough mail from twenty to fifty beggins letters every day. It req.uirs great poverty of soul as well as purse to induce these beggars to do such ill-timed work. The Corpus CbrUti stage was haulted by two masked men near Oakville, Tosas, and the rogistered latiera taken from the mail pouches. The solitary passenger had no money for the robbers. The Amerieau Book Exchange of New York, which was managed by Jnbn B. Alden, a Chicago man, has fiually failed, after staggering uuder a heavy load for several montba. Mr. A'den made a strong fight for cheap literatnre and his failure will be iegretted. The robbery of a grave at Búllalo led to the discovery that the body obtained met death from stryahulDO. Further investigatiou showed that there was a large insurance policy on the deceased, and it Í9 now believed that the plot comprieed murder and fraud. A train on the New Jersey Central road flew through Patsrson at the rate of forty miles an hour. After running thirty miles the engineer discovered the body of a woman, alive but unconscious, on the wooden platform abore the cow-catcher. When rescued she could only rciiiember being struck by the locomotiva. She was uot seriously injured. Largo buildiDg enterprises areunder contemplation or already begun at Long Brancb. Nuaierous fiae rcsidences and enlargement of hot!s, new churches, etc,, are in the list. Mr. Hillhouse has resigued the Sub-Tieasurerehip at New York, and it is understood that a gentleman in tbat city, of high commercial str.adins, has been tendered t' e office.

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